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Edexcel Music Technology June 8th 2016

Anybody sitting the A2 Music tech exam?

what are y'all expecting on question 4?

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Yep, absolutely dreading it. Was hoping there'd be a thread full of ideas about what could be on the essay as I have no clue myself - don't even know how to revise for it so I've put it off this late. Arghhhh!

Reply 2

JJWalker98

reckon it might be on drum machines, the development of them or describe the features shown on the insert, or the development of an amplifier maybe. Looking at past papers and through the revision guide it hasn't come up and is something that is suggested to look at in the revision guide!

Reply 3

kevinbruyne

Original post by JJWalker98

digital samplers came up previously closely related to drum machine

i hope something on multitrack recorders + DAW comes up

Reply 4

kevinbruyne

Original post by tomgotbored

yeah definitely a lack of music tech stuff this year...

but leaving it this late kinda shooting yourself in the foot mate.

if its worth anything, look at: Amplifiers, Drum machines, Reverb outboards, multitrack recorders, and the Internet

Reply 5

KingOfTheMonkeys

I hope it's about MIDI or something. Still time to revise though!

Reply 6

kevinbruyne

Midi's possible, don't think it's been covered before.

Btw post back here after the exam, curious to know how we all found it lol

That was gross

what did you all think of it?

Reply 9

kevinbruyne

Original post by captivewillie

That was gross

Thought it wasn't that bad, but way harder than I thought it would be

Reply 10

kevinbruyne

What did y'all answer for question 4?

Reply 11

captivewillie

The phase question......God...

Reply 12

captivewillie

Original post by kevinbruyne

What did y'all answer for question 4?

4B, which was fine, but really annoyed as i'd leant tons of dates and various models but didn't have to use it...

Reply 13

kevinbruyne

I did the mastering one, was about to do the guitar one but i compeletly forgot everything about it during the exam haha

That bass recreation was a *****hh!

Reply 14

ben hutcheson

the bass recreation was quite hard, remember people, you are not the only ones who found it hard, if you did then others did too

Reply 15

KingOfTheMonkeys

That phase cancellation wasn't too bad but the levels of the sine waves had to be almost identical. Then just invert the polarity of one of the sine waves. Pretty happy with that mastering question as well.

That bass recreation was probably the hardest question on the paper though...

Reply 16

rowland123

Original post by KingOfTheMonkeys

What DAW were you using? I managed to get it very quiet but I couldn't manage to completely get rid of it. Both levels were the same and I used phase cancelation (using gain plugin logic pro x)

Reply 17

kevinbruyne

Original post by KingOfTheMonkeys

Yeah phasing was pretty doable for me, only thing was that i had a little click at the end which i tried ages to remove but couldn't

Reply 18

tomgotbored

Original post by rowland123

What DAW were you using? I managed to get it very quiet but I couldn't manage to completely get rid of it. Both levels were the same and I used phase cancelation (using gain plugin logic pro x)

I was using Cubase, managed to get it pretty spot on (unlike anybody else in my class...), but I just phase reversed wave.wav and then set its output volume to -4.8dB, that did the trick perfectly :smile:

As for the bass recreation..... hah ha ha (it was only 3 or 4 marks though wasn't it? should have got a few marks for that at least)

Reply 19

tomgotbored

I answered the question about the guitar pedals - I don't even know what mastering is! or at least certainly not enough to write 16 marks about it... what did you guys put for that one?